Which is of greater importance, love or renunciation?

Osho, between love and renunciation, which is of greater importance?

When God sends someone to bless, you must receive; otherwise it is disrespect. You will have to accept.” The fakir said, “You have put me in a great difficulty. Then you yourself suggest what I should take! Because nothing comes to mind. I have more than I need; I only share. His love has filled me so much that I keep sharing and it keeps increasing. Whatever I have, I share. And there is never any lack. Now you have created a strange problem. So you tell me.” The angel said, “Ask for something through which others are benefited. Suppose that by your touch the sick are healed, or that by your touch a withered tree becomes green. Ask for something so that your hand acquires the power of sanjivani, life-restoring grace.” The fakir said, “That is good. But there is a danger. I am not completely dissolved yet. There…

Osho, you have titled this series of talks “Sahaj Yoga.” Do “sahaj” and “yoga” not seem mutually opposed?

Anand Maitreya! They don’t just seem opposed, they are opposed. But no ultimate truth of life can manifest without contradiction. Life is made of opposites—darkness and light, day and night, woman and man, negative electricity and positive electricity, birth and death. The very structure of life is woven of opposites. Hence the opposites are not only opposed; they are complementary to each other. If you have labored hard all day, you will be able to sleep deeply. Labor and rest are opposites, yet only the one who has worked can rest deeply—and the one who has not worked cannot. So the opposites are not only opposed, they complete each other. And only the one who has rested deeply at night can rise in the morning and engage in work again. One who has not rested through the night will not be able to work in the morning. Look closely at…

Osho, what is the definition of God?

Words are very small. If you say God is light, then what of darkness? The scriptures have said that God is light. Suppose we accept this as a definition—then what about darkness? Where will darkness go? Darkness is too; in fact it is far more than light. Light sometimes is and sometimes is not; darkness is always, eternal. Where will you place darkness? If you say God is light, darkness is left out. If you say God is darkness, then light is left out. If you say God is both darkness and light, a contradiction arises: they cannot be together. Try to have both darkness and light in the same room. If you bring in light, darkness disappears; if you preserve darkness, you cannot have light. Then how can both be together? That becomes an impossibility. So you cannot say “both” either. Then the fourth device is to say: it…

Osho, I do want to attain God, but I cannot muster the courage to do anything in that direction. Hearing you say that renunciation is not necessary makes the mind feel very good. But then a doubt arises: isn’t this self-deception?

You ask: “I do want to attain God, but I cannot muster the courage to do anything in that direction.” Then there is no life in that desire. It is a lifeless wish. You want God for free—perhaps to find him lying by the roadside! You don’t want to do anything for God; you don’t want to stake yourself. God is last on your list. For wealth you strive; for position you run day and night; but for God you say you cannot gather the courage to do anything. Look at this closely. This inability to gather courage has one basic reason: in truth you do not want God. Because when we truly want something, we become ready to do anything for it. For money a person is ready to steal, to kill, to go to prison—even to face the gallows! For position, what is a person not willing to…

I. 107. calat mansa acal kinhi

I HAVE STILLED MY RESTLESS MIND, AND MY HEART IS RADIANT: FOR IN THATNESS I HAVE SEEN BEYOND THATNESS, IN COMPANY I HAVE SEEN THE COMRADE HIMSELF. LIVING IN BONDAGE, I HAVE SET MYSELF FREE: I HAVE BROKEN AWAY FROM THE CLUTCH OF ALL NARROWNESS. KABIR SAYS: I HAVE ATTAINED THE UNATTAINABLE, AND MY HEART IS COLORED WITH THE COLOR OF LOVE. I. 105. jo disai so to hai nahin THAT WHICH YOU SEE IS NOT: AND FOR THAT WHICH IS, YOU HAVE NO WORDS. UNLESS YOU SEE, YOU BELIEVE NOT: WHAT IS TOLD YOU, YOU CANNOT ACCEPT. HE WHO IS DISCERNING KNOWS BY THE WORD; AND THE IGNORANT STANDS GAPING. SOME CONTEMPLATE THE FORMLESS, AND OTHERS MEDITATE ON FORM; BUT THE WISE MAN KNOWS THAT BRAHMA IS BEYOND BOTH. THAT BEAUTY OF HIS IS NOT SEEN OF THE EYE, THAT METER OF HIS IS NOT HEARD OF THE EAR.…